Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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General, did not insist that George V appoint another Australian to replace the present Governor General, Sir Isaac Isaacs, appointed by His Majesty with the indignant comment, "a man whom I have never seen...
...Briton frequently seen by Queen Victoria, King Edward and King George is the new Governor General put forward by Mr. Lyons last week, soldierly Sir Alexander Hore-Ruthven, brother of the ninth Baron Ruthven whose Scottish title dates from 1487. Sir Alexander was born in George Windsor's name town, Windsor, schooled at Eton across the Thames, decorated by Queen Victoria for bravery as a camel corps commander in the Sudan, and sent to Australia by King Edward as Military Secretary to its Governor General in 1908. Desperately wounded at Gallipoli, he received the D. S. O. from King...
...daring British privateer named Brooke forced the Sultan of Brunei to make him Raja of the vast East Indian district called Sarawak. Today his descendant is swank, hard Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, who as The White Raja of Sarawak rules 500,000 natives from his palace at Kuching (TIME, Feb. 5, 1934). Romantic Sarawak is "independent under the protection of the British Crown." Last month in Sarawak a cable from the Raja's 22-year-old Daughter Eliza asked if she could marry London's loudest-blowing hot jazz conductor, Harry...
...today against Japan: a fat loan from the West to the Nanking Government of harassed, high-strung little Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. Last week Japanese officials were nervous as cats lest such a loan result from the visit to China of the Paitish Treasury's biggest mobile gun, Sir Frederick Leith-Ross. bland Chief Economic Adviser to His Majesty's Exchequer, who is steaming this week toward the Far East...
...ready for Sir Frederick, Chinese Finance Minister H. H. Kung hopped aboard a cruiser at Nanking and steamed up the Yangtze. Ahead of him on a specially chartered ship was his brother-in-law, onetime Finance Minister T. V. Soong, China's No. 1 financier. Down to meet them swooped from the interior their common brother-in-law. Generalissimo Chiang. A minor problem first to be disposed of was the abrupt resignation 'of Chinese Premier Wang Ching-wei and several lesser members of the Cabinet. Moon-faced Mr. Wang resigned "because of poor health," the others "in sympathy...